The Inter-University Centre invites you to a public lecture–performance by Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević: A World Without Women, which will take place on Tuesday, May 13 at 8:00 PM in the Ivan Supek Main Hall.

The lecture-performance A World Without Women by playwrights Maja Pelević and Olga Dimitrijević is based on their theatre production of the same name, which premiered at the Bitef Festival in Belgrade in 2022. The central theme of the project is the relationship between women and labor, with a particular focus on the world of theatre and its deeply rooted structural inequalities.

Although theatre—with its specific rules and frameworks—might seem separate from "real" life, it still serves as a relevant case study for analyzing broader social realities. The issue of women and labor transcends the theatre context, becoming a stimulus for rethinking future emancipatory policies. After all, if we cannot overcome power structures or imagine new models within theatre—the very space where we are supposed to envision different and better worlds—how can we expect to do so in real life?

Drawing from their research on gender inequality in Serbian theatre, Olga Dimitrijević and Maja Pelević go on to address wider issues: low wages, normalized violence at multiple levels, representation, and the reproduction of patriarchal and capitalist patterns in the arts. The performance explores the boundaries of engaged art today and raises the question of how often love for art becomes a subtle source of social repression.

The performance is part of the IUC course Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective and will be held in English. We warmly invite all those interested to attend.