Queerying Polska
Intervention in Humanities, Activism and Art since 1970
Ph.D. Workshop
Seminar of Media Studies/Contemporary European History
Herrengarten 3, Room AH-A 110
University of Siegen
Thursday, 26th October 2017
3.00 - 3.30 pm: Welcome
Prof. Dr. Susanne Regener, Chair of Media History/Visual Culture,
University of Siegen
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Contemporary European History, University of
Siegen
3.30 - 5 pm: Keynote
Global, Eastern and Polish Homosexuals in Times of Communism
Dr. Lukasz Szulc, LSE London
Friday, 27th October 2017
9:00 – 10.30 am: Panel I
9.00 – 9.45 am
Challenging and Transforming (Socialist) Gender Norms: Performance Art
in Central Eastern Europe during the 1970s
Corinna Kühn, WWU Münster
9.45 – 10.30 am
Queer intervention in polish art and activism since 1980
Julia Austermann, University of Siegen
- 15 min. break -
10:45 – 12.15 pm: Panel II
10.45 – 11.30 pm:
Gender Variance and the Sexual Transformation of Poland: the Case of
Drag
Ludmila Janion, University of Warsaw
11.30 – 12.15 pm:
Male Bodies in gay magazines (1980-2000) – Germany, Italy and Poland in
comparison.
Tim Veith, University of Siegen
- 1 hour lunch break -
1:15 – 3:30 pm: Panel III
1.15 – 2 pm:
Women’s and Gender Studies in Poland. Structural, local, political
chances and pitfalls for feminist research
Katharina Kinga Kowalski, EUV Frankfurt/Oder
2 - 2.45 pm:
Europeanization and Transnationalization processes – NGOs contributions
in creating LGBT spheres in Poland
Magda Wlotowska, University of Leipzig
2.45 – 3.30 pm:
The right wing takeover and discursive counter-strategies by feminists/
LGBTQ*s in Poland
Jennifer Ramme, EUV Frankfurt/Oder
3:30 – 4:15 pm: Discussion
Organised by:
Julia Austermann M.A.
Scientific Assistant/Doctoral Candidate
Chair of Media History/Visual Culture
Herrengarten 3, Room 116
University of Siegen
Phone: + 49 271 - 740 2048
Mail: austermann@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de
Web: http://www.mediengeschichte.uni-siegen.de/
Tim Veith, Historian
Scholar, The Green Political Foundation (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)
Contemporary European History
University of Siegen
Mail: tim_veith@posteo.de
Supported by:
Prof. Dr. Susanne Regener
Chair of Media History/Visual Culture
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft
Contemporary European History
Equal Opportunity Commissioner
Centre of Gender Studies
University of Siegen