Tarptautinis seminaras "Writing the Soviet Baltic Queerstory: The Sources and Methods" – 2022-09-20

2022 m. rugsėjo 20 d. Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakultete (211 aud.) vyks tarptautinis seminaras Writing the Soviet Baltic Queerstory: The Sources and Methods. Seminaro tikslas – susipažinti su naujausiais tyrimais apie LGBTQ+ istoriją Baltijos šalyse sovietinės okupacijos metais ir inicijuoti tarptautines akademines diskusijas apie šios istorijos rašymo problemas, šaltinius ir metodus.

Seminaras vyks anglų kalba.

Programa:

9.30 – 10.00
Registration of participants of the seminar

10.00 – 10.15
Opening of the seminar

10.15 – 11.00
Keynote address
Dan Healey (University of Oxford)
Occupied, or Why LGBTQ History Matters

11.00 – 11.15
Break

11.15 – 13.00
1 session
Chair: Tomas Vaiseta (Vilnius University)

• Rasa Navickaitė (University of Vienna)
  

  Queer Sexuality in (Eastern) Europe: The Problem of Historical Comparison

• Ineta Lipša (University of Latvia)
  

  Criminal Cases on Hooliganism: An Overlooked Source for Research of Male Same-sex Subcultures in the Latvian SSR

• Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre)
  

  Between Personal and Professional: Collecting Life Stories and Personal Narratives as an Insider Researcher

• Viktorija Kolbešnikova (Queer Archive Išgirsti, NGO In Corpore)
  Short Story of Lithuanian Queer Archive Išgirsti

13.00 – 14.30
Lunch

14.30 – 16.15
2 session
Chair: Ineta Lipša (University of Latvia)

• Kārlis Vērdiņš (Washington University, University of Latvia)
  

  “Two Peters”: A Gay Couple in Soviet Latvia under Stalinism

• Rebeka Põldsam (University of Tartu)
  

  Homophobic Narratives and their Soviet History in Estonia

• Natalija Arlauskaitė (Vilnius University)
  

  Retroactive Queerness of Soviet Film

• Tomas Vaiseta (Vilnius University)
  A Criminal, a Patient, a Dissident, or Human Being. Which Story Should We Tell?