Many efforts have been made over the past several years to diversify Eastern European and Eurasian studies. This new spotlight surfaces research that has been conducted by many scholars for much longer, highlighting their commitment to telling stories and honoring perspectives of diverse and minority communities. Their work reveals that while there is no unified queer experience in the region, there is often a one-size-fits all state response to the reality of queer lives in many nations within the region. How can a queer-studies focus advance conversations about decolonization in East European and Eurasian Studies? To address this question, Queer Focus will have seven virtual panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will explore how gendered regimes were constitutive of Russo-centric relationships of power, defining the region and how we study it, as we collectively grapple with what it means to re-examine our current research, teaching, and institutional practices.
Full Details
Friday, March 22
Queer Focus: On Ukraine
Time:
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Presenter:
Various
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas Center for Russian, University of Michigan Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
Institute for European, Russian, The George Washington University
Institute of Slavic, University of California, Berkeley Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies, Arizona State University Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute and Bloomington