Referat Genderforschung an der Univ. Wien: Gender Talks (Web)

Time: 15.05.2024, 17.00 Uhr
Venue: Univ. Wien, Erika-Weinzierl-Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Stiege 1, 1. Stock

In this paper, Alyosxa Tudor engages with the overlaps of speculative fiction and auto/theory. Through these tools, Tudor aims to explore the intricate dynamics of intergenerational trauma and the travelling of gender, state, and sexual violence across both space and time. The narrative unfolds in the disputed Eastern borderlands of Europe, specifically focusing on the Budjak and the Dobrogea regions, currently part of Ukraine and bordering Romania.
Central to the story Alyosxa Tudor will be telling is the life of Pena, born in 1911 in the Budjak, at the time in the Tsarist Empire. The primary objective of this paper is to unravel Pena’s life story and its interconnection with the histories of the region – the inter-imperial borderlands, Black Sea/Danube Delta hinterlands, and multi-ethnic territories deeply marked by anti-Semitism, ethno-racism, and Islamophobia.

Alyosxa Tudor is Reader in Gender Studies and the Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, Univ. of London. Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa Tudor’s main research interest lies in analysing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialisation.