Workshop by the Research Platform „Transformations and Eastern Europe“, Univ. of Vienna (Web)
Time: 29.-30.06.2023
Venue: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Marietta Blau-Saal
This two-day workshop invites doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to reflect on the impact that the modernization of states and societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had on the construction of sexual and gender identities and experiences, as well as the notion of sexual deviance. While the 20th century was marked by increasingly modern – secular, science-based, medicalized, etc. – conception of sexuality across Europe, this new understanding interacted in complex ways with traditional and religious notions of morality and sin. Furthermore, the 20th century in CEE was marked by multiple regime and ideological changes, which also impacted the ways people lived and understood their personal lives, gender identities, and sexual experiences. Considering the limitations of the Foucauldian narrative of the history of sexuality in the West, the workshop invites participants to reflect on the methodological and theoretical tools that are needed to interrogate the continuity and change of sexual discourses and practices in CEE.
Programme (Web)
Panels: Identity, Community, State, and Homosexuality | Socialist Modernity and Sexual Deviance | Literary Escapes and Rebellions
In particular, the workshop invites participants to reflect: Can we see gender as one of the central categories of analysis in understanding the construction of hetero- and cis- normativity and morality, even in societies which prided themselves on achieving gender equality? How do we approach the categories of class and race in relation to sexuality, Continue reading

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