Queer Focus Series • Migration

The impacts of war can be felt far outside the actual battlefield. Russia’s war against Ukraine has set off historic levels of migration, in addition to huge environmental and economic impacts. Modern war also disproportionately affects gender and sexual minorities, something we are seeing in Ukraine even as Putin’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda seeks to relentlessly drive support for the war at home. How can a queer-studies focus advance conversations about decolonization in East European and Eurasian Studies? To address this question, Queer Focus will have six virtual panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will explore how gendered regimes were constitutive of Russo-centric relationships of power, defining the region and how we study it, as we collectively grapple with what it means to re-examine our current research, teaching, and institutional practices.

Panel 5 of the series will examine the role of migration within queer studies in Eurasia and Eastern Europe. Join Zoom Webinar.

MODERATOR

Alexandra Novitskaya, Title VIII Research Fellow, Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center; Research Affiliate, Robert F. Byrnes Russia and East European Institute, Indiana University

SPEAKERS

Randall Rowe, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Cincinnati
Yevgeny Shtorn, Doctoral Candidate in Political, Societal, and Cultural Change, University of Helsinki
Mariya Levitanus, Lecturer in Counseling and Psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh
Maryna Shevtsova, FWO Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Sponsorship
This series was developed and implemented by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the Ohio State University with support from the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. Additional financial support has been provided by:

Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies, Arizona State University
Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington