Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Winter Colloquium
Beyond the Pink Curtain? Eastern European Sexualities, Homophobia and Western Eyes

This interdisciplinary Colloquium will bring together scholars in the social sciences, history, Slavic and other area studies, as well as activists from LGBT communities, to examine the relationships between gender, nation and sexuality. How, for example, did the emergence of revised national identities after 1989 relate to new conceptions of non-normative gender and sexuality? What were the local dimensions of the ‘lesbian and gay question’, and why did they develop? How did queer sexualities in this region evolve historically? And what influence does that historical legacy have today? What are the specificities and particularities of Central and Eastern European sexual identities, within the region and compared with Western and other non-Western formations?

Friday 22nd January 2010 Room 541 Birkbeck College Main Building 9.30am – 5pm
(Registration 9.00 in Room 538)

Registration and information: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/news/pinkcurtain