Marko Jobst and Andrija Filipović (eds.) (Web)
Proposals by: 01.12.2025
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the once socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe – but also central Asia, Africa and Latin America – have undergone a rapid series of political, economic, and cultural reconfigurations and realignments with neoliberal forms of capitalism. This has developed in parallel with a reversal to national and religious paradigms that had preceded the formation of socialist states, even if under the banner of democracy.
This same period, the end of the 1980s and the onset of the 1990s, saw the formation of queer theory. Forged in the USA, queer theory, and ‘queer’ as term, remain an Anglophone product – despite the term’s supposed etymological roots in Indo-European ‘athwart’, which implies an oblique angle on a normative line, hinting at forms and figures that refuse easy alignments. At the time of this call in 2025, and despite the many and cyclical proclamations of its death, queer theory remains the umbrella field of inquiry for gender variance and sexual diversity, but also one that extends beyond gender and sexuality. Queer as a term, and queer theory as its discursive and academic manifestation, have become the standard conceptual lens through which to inquire into broader processes and mechanisms of othering, including various more-than-human and environmental issues.
In parallel to this trajectory, decolonial discourses have been uncovering possible forms of gender and sexual variance that would have preceded European colonial projects and everything that came in their wake, including the very construction of ‘sexuality’ in the 19th century. Indigeneity, often in conjunction with ecological concerns, is increasingly seen as an antidote to global, colonial, and intrinsically capitalist histories, as well as a source of inspiration for doing things differently on a planet that is undergoing multiple crises. And yet, indigeneity has limited reach as a means of countering historical domination of reproductive cis heteropatriarchy across the globe, indigenous and colonial alike. Read more and source … (Web)
4. F*GG LAB: Geschlecht historisieren. Frauen*- und Geschlechtergeschichte vernetzen 
Buch Wien. Messe und Festival 
Vortrag der Reihe wisoabendkolloquium, Inst. für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Univ. Wien