The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine can be felt far outside the actual battlefield. Modern war disproportionately affects gender and sexual minorities, something we are seeing in Ukraine even as Putin's anti-LGBTQ+ agenda seeks to relentlessly drive support for the war at home. How can a queer-studies focus advance conversations about decolonization in East European and Eurasian Studies? To address this question, Queer Focus will have six 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.
Events in UCIS
Friday, March 15
11:00 am Panel Discussion
Queer Focus: Activism
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with 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 and Arizona State University and Indiana University and Bloomington; Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
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