CONFERENCE
The conference will reveal the vivid picture of queer scholarship as relatively new trend in Central and East Europe, influenced by theorists and historians of West Europe and America that has different developments in each national culture and literature. Many papers are dedicated to literary culture of European countries while other touches history, art history, theology, communication studies and other fields. Scholars reflect upon the significance and future of LGBTQ culture as well as present previously unknown facts about cultural heritage of different Central and East European countries. The conference is organized by Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia in cooperation with association “Mozaīka”.
Conference will take place at Pauls Stradiņš Museum for History of Medicine.
You have to register to apply! If you are interested write at queernarratives2015@gmail.<wbr />com
Conference program:
10:00 – 10:10 Conference opening: DACE BULA, director of Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art
Session 1. Chair: Kārlis Vērdiņš
10:10 – 10:30 MARTIN C. PUTNA. The End of Gay and Lesbian Literature As Its Happy End
10:30 – 10:50 LIINA LUKAS. Literary Queer Mésalliances in Riga around 1900
10:50 – 11:10 VITALY CHERNETSKY. Ukrainian Queer Culture: The Difficult Birth
11:10 – 11:30 INETA LIPŠA. Communication on Non-normative Sexuality in Inter-war Latvia (1920s and 30s)
11:30 – 11:40 Discussion
11:40 – 12:00 Coffee break
Session 2. Chair: Jānis Ozoliņš
12:00 – 12:20 ROLF FÜLLMANN. Death Penalty or ‘Death and Transfiguration’? – The International Reception of Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’
12:20 – 12:40 LAINE KRISTBERGA. Latvian Queerness Mirrored – Andris Grīnbergs vs. Andy Warhol
12:40 – 13:00 LAIMA KREIVYTĖ. Writing Queer Stories through Exhibitions
13:00 – 13:20 DIRK SCHULZ. Fact and Fiction, Insistence and Resistance. Germany’s struggle with queer interventions
13:20 – 13:30 Discussion
13:30 – 15:00 Break
Session 3. Chair: Ineta Lipša
15:00 – 15:20 JANA JABLONICKÁ-ZEZULOVÁ. Import from the West vs. Import from the Past: Queer Movement in the First Half of the 20th Century in Slovak Context
15:20 – 15:40 JAN SEIDL. Decriminalization of Homosexual Acts in Czechoslovakia in 1961
15:40 – 16:00 ILZE JANSONE. The Story about Minority in Minority: the Case of Christian Lesbians in Latvia
16:00 – 16:20 JĀNIS OZOLIŅŠ. Queer Melancholia in Andra Neiburga’s Short Stories
16:20 – 16:30 Discussion
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
Session 4. Chair: Ilze Jansone
16:50 – 17:10 TOMASZ SIKORA. How Queer is a Queer Narrative?
17:10 – 17:30 KĀRLIS VĒRDIŅŠ. How Latvians Learned the Word “Homosexuality”
17:30 – 17:50 GREGORY WOODS. The Mainstream, the Sidestream and the Irrigation Ditch: British Gay Literature and the Parched Reader
17:50 – 18:00 Discussion and summary of the conference
Supporters: USA Embassy Latvia, Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonds, Pēteris Viņķelis, AirBaltic, Neiburgs Hotel, Mansards/NicePlace and Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine
This work has been supported by the European Social Fund within the ILFA, UL project «Cultures within a Culture: Politics and Poetics of Border Narratives».
