Open Call for Participants for Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe II
28–30 April 2023, Athens, Greece
Confirmed speakers: Athena Athanasiou, Elena Tzelepis, Antonella Lerca Duda
"QueerFemSEE II aims to create a network of queer feminist solidarity across and against national borders in SEE. Against reductive notions of commonality in SEE, and essentialist notions of gender and sexuality, how can we queer the affinities that bind us together? We seek to resist erasure, silencing, misrepresentation, tokenism, assimilation: to replace lost memory and counter the disappearance of queer histories. We seek community and connection: to listen to and learn from each other, have difficult conversations, disagree, laugh, and eat together. QueerFemSEE II invites queer feminist researchers working within and beyond academic institutions, activists and community organisers, artists, to come together for three unforgettable days in Athens!"
This is the second QueerFemSEE; the first was held in Bucharest, Romania in 2017 and resulted in the special issue of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies (no. 4, 2021, eds. Ramona Dima and Simona Dumitriu).
Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe International Conference