Research on the life stories of Slovak women from Lowland

12. October 2015
CIVS continues with the project Women Studies. This time the research of the Slovak women life stories is held in Romania, Hungary and Croatia with the support of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad.

The project is a continuation and expansion of a successful project established by the organization from Novi Sad called women studies, which in 2003 launched an Oral history research methods and subsequently released publication called Life stories of Slovak women in Vojvodina. The book reaped great success and prompted the Cultural Institute of Vojvodina's Slovaks to continue to work with the authors of this research, who will record and process the life stories of Slovak women living in Hungary, Romania and Croatia in the new phase of the research.

In the preparatory phase the induction training on the methodology of Oral history was held by Anna Jašková. Subsequently, researchers Anna Jašková, Aneta Lomenová and Marijan Pavlov conducted a research in Hungary and Romania. Interviews with informants will continue in Croatia and Serbia, which will be held by Anna Jašková and Anna Margareta Valentová.

The project aims to explore and professionally record the life stories of Slovak women from the Lowlands and thus contribute to the detection of questions about life of compatriots in time and space. The specific purpose is to prepare a study on the Life stories of Slovak women from Lowland, which not only include the results of field research, but also present the testimonies of women in Serbia, Hungary, Romania and Croatia.

The project is supported by the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad. With this project we want to contribute to documenting life of Lowland Slovak woman in the past, and to spread the values of Slovak identity preservation beyond the borders of the mother country. We expect that the field research will develop international cooperation and will bring some new ideas for joint projects.

(Klikom fotografie zvačšite)
On Monday, April 20th, 2015 at the International Book Salon in Novi Sad there was presented an artistic monograph of Maria Gasko.
On Friday 10th April 2015 a book presentation Slovak women- the life stories of Slovak women in Vojvodina, was held in Padina.
On Sunday, March 8th, 2015 a manifold programme was dedicated to Vojvodina Slovak women on the International Women's Day in CIVS.
The Cultural Institute of Vojvodina's Slovaks completed the digitization of audio recordings of field research made by a university professor, a prominent linguist and researcher Daniel Dudok.
At the fair Slovakiatour in Bratislava the President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska stopped by the exhibit stand of Vojvodina's Slovaks.
World Theatre Day was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated annually on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community.
On Tuesday, March 25th 2014 in the large hall of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina was held the AER Conference Culture for All.
At the Cultural Institute of Vojvodina Slovaks the organizers of the 21st children theatre creation competition called 3xĎ have had a meeting.
Within the traditional event called Winter with a book which was held on March 12th 2014 was presented the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Zuzana Čižiková.
March the 8th CIVS devoted to women who have contributed to raising culture in our area in the past, as well as to those who are doing it nowadays.