Location: Cathedral of Learning, 1st Floor, Croghan-Schenley Ballroom
Friday | February 10
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. | OPENING REMARKS
by Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. | Keynote Lecture
“Thinking Global, Acting Local: Hungarian Sexual Science Under State-Socialism”
by Anita Kurimay, Bryn Mawr College
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Break
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | “Das Kapital Oratorio: The Fall of Communism as a Queer Dispropriative Event”
by Aaron Lecklider, University of Massachusetts Boston
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | “Queerness and the Socialist Project in East Germany”
by Samuel Huneke, George Mason University
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. | “A Historically Difficult Relationship: Latin American LGTB Movements and The Left”
by Jordi Diez, University of Guelph
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | “Queer Life in China’s Early Socialist Period”
by Wenqing Kang, Cleveland State University
Saturday | February 11
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. | “Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Evidence”
by Irina Roldugina, University of Pittsburgh
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | “Queer & Trans Encounters with State-Socialist Medicine in Post-war Czechoslovakia”
by Kate Davison, University of Edinburgh
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | “Responding to Surveillance of State Authorities in Soviet Latvia: Male Same-Sex Practices Through the Diary of a Homosexual Kaspars Aleksandrs Irbe (1906-1996)”
by Ineta Lipša, University of Latvia
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. | Final Discussion
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. | Warhol Museum
Sponsors:
- Asian Studies Center
- European Studies Center
- Global Studies Center
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- University Center for International Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- World History Center
- Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
- Department of History
- Global Studies Program
- Carnegie Mellon University