25 Sep Seminar ‘COUNTERPUBLICS: Queer Activism, Nationalism and Public Space’
The Coalition ‘Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities’ (Skopje) in cooperation with Queer Zagreb (Zagreb) and Center for Queer Studies (Belgrade) is announcing the start of the 5-day seminar ‘COUNTERPUBLICS: Queer Activism, Nationalism and Public Space’, to be held 26-30 of June, 2012 in Skopje, Macedonia.
The seminar is part of a wide collaborative project titled as “COUNTERPUBLICS: Re-enacting Communities, Queering Nationalisms” being a year-long project whose main goal is to create a wider regional front that would counter and contest the hegemonic heteronormative and nationalistic distribution of visibility in public spaces and community by the means of enhancing the capacities, strengthening the knowledge and collaborative creation of strategies for resistance of queer human rights activists in the Region.
Although the seminar is of closed character, the lectures during the seminar will be streamed online, so that anyone interested in the topic can still participate at: http://www.radiomof.mk/koalicija/ and vozivo.mk
The streaming is realized in collaboration with MOF Radion.
The programme of the lectures to be streamed is the following:
27.09, Thursday, 11.00h: Jasna Koteska – “Art, Politics, Sanitation, Sexuality”
28.09, Friday, 11.00h: Dushan Maljkovic (Belgrade) – “Queer Politics and the Left”
29.09, Saturday, 11.00h: Olga Dimitrijevich (Belgrade) – “Queer, Film and the Image of the Nation: Representation of Homosexuality in Post-Yugoslav Cinema after 2000”
30.09, Sunday, 11.00h: Roman Kuhar (Ljubljana) – “The Unbearable Comfort of Privacy”
The event is supported by the EAST-EAST Beyond Borders Programs, OSF.