Decolonizing Queer Experience: New Research from Ukraine and Beyond

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Seminar in Ukrainian Studies | TCUP Attendees will receive a discount code to purchase the book at 30% off the original price. https://rowman.com/.../Decolonizing-Queer-Experience-LGBT... Speakers: Emily Channell-Justice, Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Tamar Shirinian, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxvill Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas Decolonizing Queer Experience: LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia brings together new research that moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression of LGBT+ people in the post-Soviet world. The contributions to the volume explore the resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities and highlight the diversity of voices within the LGBT+ experience. Its chapters represent the broad geography of the post-Soviet world, and the authors draw from various ethnographic, historical, and artistic methods of analysis to reframe what the LGBT+ experience means in the region. This panel focuses on contributions from researchers working in Ukraine. Their research shows that, while the issue of repression is an essential frame through which to understand LGBT+ experiences, many are pushing back against a deeply instilled homophobia that is assumed to be unchanging in Ukraine. Using the lens of “decolonizing,” the panelists will explore why this theoretical framework is useful for a new understanding of LGBT+ experiences in the region. They will situate the present volume within existing queer theory and LGBT+ research in the region, and they will address current trends in research related to LGBT+ topics and point to some areas for future research. More information: https://huri.harvard.edu/event/decolonizing-queer-experience