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15Jan2016
Book Seminar
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
In this book seminar, Peter Drucker will discuss his book with three scholars working in the field of feminism, sexuality and politics.
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10Dec2015
Transitional justice, feminist theory and the arts
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Drawing from feminist theory concerning the conceptualization of revolution and revolt, professor Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht University) will explore how the arts have the medium-specific potential to transcend the ...
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26Nov2015
From Orientalism to Homonationalism: Queer Politics, Islamophobia and European Enlargement in the Balkans
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
This lecture addresses the convergence of European Union expansion and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Muslim majority countries in the Balkans. It looks at how EU enlargement assemblages of civil ...
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20Nov2015
SYMPOSIUM: ‘The feminist methods myth – why gender studies has to overcome methodological determinism’
14:00 - 17:00 | Event
The debate about ‘feminist’ methods has a long and contentious history in gender studies. Many researchers in the field of gender studies show an antipathy towards the use of quantitative analysis because of its ...
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19Nov2015
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Marriage Equality Debates in Slovenia
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
Placing same-sex partnership debates in Slovenia in its historical context, the lecture focuses both on the role of political parties – the right-wing government of Janez Janša adopted Registered Same-sex Partnership ...
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05Nov2015
Queering Marx and Marxing the Queer: Normality of the Belgrade Gay Pride
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
This lecture will consist of two parts: first I will try to explicate the term queer in opposition to hetero/homonormativity and offer a brief introduction to queer theory and its critique of identity politics and ...
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23Oct2015
Class, Race, Gender and all that Jazz
16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture
In my presentation, I will examine the purview and the relations between these three major axes of signification: class/race/gender.
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22Oct2015 23Oct2015
Social Class in the 21st century
Conference
The question of social class has re-emerged as a central concern for the analysis and politics of gender and sexuality in the public sphere in many societies worldwide. The ascent and subsequent crisis of global ...
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11June2015
Lunch Lecture: Masculinities and male sex work in Spain (1975-2015). An ethnographic approach.
12:00 - 14:00 | Lecture
The research presented here is a preliminary approach and proposes a conceptual and historical framework of male sex work in Spain. To understand the development and evolution of male sex work in Spain it is ...
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22May2015
Paradoxes of the Homosexuality Debates in Uganda
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
In this lecture, I will examine the points of departure, overlap and contestations of the Anti-Homosexuality and Pro-Homosexuality camps involved in debating diverse aspects of the homosexual question in Uganda.
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24Apr2015
Homosexual Listings in 20th Century Hungary
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Similarly to other iron curtained countries, gay life during state socialism was not very well documented in Hungary – except perhaps by certain secret police files. Judit Takács (Hungary Academy of Sciences) ...
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14Apr2015
Recent Standpoints on Decoloniality
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Social justice movements, such as feminism, anti-racism, and postcolonialism, have produced a standpoint methodology that is more competent to maximize objectivity than the conventional requirement that natural and ...
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20Mar2015
The Other Sex Work: Sexuality Research and the Persistent Problem of Shame
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
This talk explores a paradox in sexuality studies: sexuality research has a long history of controversy, and at the same time, broad public interest fuels ongoing demand for it.
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12Mar2015
Queering Montenegro: Challenging Homophobia in Montenegro
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
This talk discusses the LGBTIQ activism in Montenegro, focusing on how it has been shaped by complex relationships between the NGOs, the state, international donors, the EU, and everyday forms of oppression.
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27Feb2015
An Ambiguous Affair: The Yugoslav Socialist State and Its Homosexuals
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
In Yugoslavia a partial and slow decriminalization, and a tacit depathologization in the 1970s, dispensed "from above", opened the door not only to an increasingly westernised sexological frame, but also to models of ...
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20Feb2015
Does LGBT mobilizing change the mainstream, or are LGBT normalized by the mainstream?
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
In his presentation, Jan Willem Duyvendak will discuss the recent history of LGBT emancipation, throughout which Dutch homosexuality has moved from the margins to the mainstream.
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23Jan2015
Envisioning Sexual Rights and Embodying Non-Normative Sexualities and Genders in the Context of Socio-Economic Transformation in Nepal
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
This paper presentation explores the everyday socio-economic contexts of legal and constitutional reform regarding the rights of sexual and gender ‘non-normative’ peoples in Nepal.
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11Dec2014
Progression: Time and the Materialisation of HIV in Canadian Law
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Dr. Emily Grabham argues that the achievement of progression, and the performance of ‘progression work’, has been central to the creation of medico-legal objectivity around HIV.
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02Dec2014
Sade Today
09:00 - 17:30 | Conference
200 years ago – on Dec. 2, 1814 – the libertine novelist Marquis de Sade died in an asylum. During that era in history, many ideas on sexuality have been formulated that still influence modern society: the gender ...
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21Nov2014
“Human Values and Approval of Homosexuality in Europe”
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Although research has revealed a trend toward liberalization of attitudes toward homosexuality in Western countries, acceptance of homosexuality differs remarkably among individuals and across countries.