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Thursday, January 24

Resisting Hate-Speech on the Walls: (Anti)Homphobia Graffiti in Post-Socialist Europe
Time:
4:00 pm
Presenter:
Mitja Velikonja, Professor for Cultural Studies and Head of the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Location:
501 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Sociology, Gender, Sexuality and Gender Sexuality & Women's Studies Program

Political graffiti and street art were traditionally a media of left-wing activists. Now they are increasingly becoming also the media of the right-wing extremists. This lecture focuses on one of such problematic trends: homophobic graffiti, stencils, stickers, posters etc. and immediate – spontaneous or systematic– reactions with anti-homophobic ones in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit gsws.pitt.edu.