Free and Open to Everyone
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Every Monday, March 27 – May 29, 2023; 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern Time
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
Cosponsored by the New University in Exile Consortium and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Institute at The New School.Â
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Description: This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to LGBTQ+ studies as they relate to the postcolonial Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as Post-communist Eastern Europe in the twenty-first century. Its aim is to decenter and globalize issues from queer studies on the complex cases of the Global South and the former Eastern Block, to question and enrich the contemporary westcentric LGBTQ+ studies and theory. Together with the participants, this seminar will explore nonheteronormative gender and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective in various legal, political and national frameworks outside the West, including developments that have emerged in light of indigenous, postcolonial, diasporic, racial and migration/exile approaches.
This course also insists upon the relevance of gender and queer studies for considering conflicts of national and transnational consequence including neo-colonialism, citizenship, immigration, war, terrorism, and human rights on a planetary scale. Research and discussion of the historical, political, social and economic conditions determining the oppression and emancipation of LGBTQ+ people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, considering colonial and totalitarian backgrounds and contemporary struggles for democracy, will be offered. The focus will be on local activism, the role of international human rights politics, and the artistic expression, to understanding the strategies of advocacy and resistance that queer social movements and individuals have developed in struggles for self-determination.
To globalize LGBTQ+ studies, activism and art from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, will be highlighted. Discussions of particular national cases globally will be determined by the experiences of participating students. The interdisciplinary nature of the seminar makes it open and relevant to students, scholars and activists in the humanities, social sciences, and direct involvement.
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Weekly Readings: Available on the New University in Exile Consortium's website.
More Information: Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
Paweł serves as an art historian and a freelance curator, specializing in transnational contemporary art-as-activism and LGBTQ+ studies. As researchers and.or lecturers, Pawel and Tomasz have worked at universities in Germany, Finland, the U.K., the U.S., Japan and their native Poland; Pawel and Tomasz are a married couple.
The Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each institutional member is committed to hosting at least one threatened scholar every year and these exiled hosted scholars constitute our scholar cohort. We work with them individually and together to try and lessen the profound sense of dislocation which exiled scholars suffer and which adversely impacts their intellectual and personal lives. In the past year, the Consortium has expanded its mission to include finding placements for threatened Afghan and Ukrainian academics, students, and artists at Consortium member institutions.
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